Steam-generator.



No. 664,683. Patented Dec. 25; I900.

J. SGHDETTL & C. JAEGER.

STEAM GENERATOR.

(Applicatinn filed Sept. v 11, 1900.;

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH SOHOETTL AND CHRISTIAN JAEGER, OF .NEW YORK, N. Y.

STEAM-GENERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 664,683, dated December 25, 1900.

Application filed S tember 11, 1900- Serial No. 29,653. (No model.)

To (all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOSEPH SOHOETTL and OHEIs'rIAN J AEGER, citizens of the United States, and residents of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Steam-Generator, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of this invention is to provide a device for generating and superheating steam, the device beingparticularly applicable to domestic uses and being portable, so that it may be employed in one place or another, as desired.

This specification is the disclosure of one form of our invention, while the claim defines the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a vertical section of the apparatus. Fig. 2 is a plan View; and Fig. 3 is an elevation, partly in section, showing the device fitted as a beer-tube cleaner.

The apparatus has a boiler a, with a longitudinally-disposed flue a passing therethrough. This boiler is incased in a jacket 1), which has a skirt or extension b at its lower end, and all of these parts ab 6 are sustained on a suitable base 0 by arms 0, rising from the base and fastened to the skirt 1). This base a carries a burner or other suitable heating device 0 the heat from which passes up against the lower end of the boiler a through the flue a and also between the boiler-jacket b, the skirt b serving to retain the heat and to cause it to pass upward, where it will be efiectively applied. Handles d are provided for facilitating the movement of the device from one place to another, and a suitable water-gage e is fitted to the boiler to show the height of the water therein. The water may be introduced into the boiler through a pipe f, fitted with a funnel f in the usual form.

From the top of the boiler to passes a pipe g, which extends downward between the jacket I) and the outside of the boiler and passes under the bottom of the boiler, it being there formed into a coil 9, the pipe continuing from the coil upward through the flue a, as indicated at 9 and projecting out of the top of the flue to deliver thesuperheated steam. Now it will be seen that the steam generated in the boiler a will pass out thereof by means of the pipe g and in passing through this pipe will be superheated, owing to the arrangement of the coil g and the end 9 in immediate proximity to the hottest parts of the boiler. The superheated steam passing from the end g of the steam-pipe maybe applied in any desired manner for various uses, as will be apparent to persons instructed in such matters.

One of the uses to which the superheated steam may be put is that of cleaning beerpipes, as illustrated in Fig. 3, in which the end 9 of the steam-pipe is projected upward and into a reservoir h, which is adapted to contain a suitable detergent and which is provided with an outlet h, adapted to be placed in communication with the beer-pipe to be cleaned. The steam thus passes into the reservoir h and holds the detergent in suspension in passing therefrom, thus supplying it to the beer-pipes to clean the same.

Having thus fully described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A steam-generator,comprising a boiler having a vertically-disposed flue passing therethrough, a jacket inclosing the boiler and provided with a skirt at its lower edge, the skirt projecting below the boiler,and a tube passing from the upper part of the boiler and conducting the steam therefrom,the tube extending'downward between the boiler and the jacket and being coiled below the bottom of the boiler and thence projected upward through the flue and beyond the same.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH SGHOETTL. CHRISTIAN JAEGER.

Witnesses:

J. B. OwENs,

EVE AED BOLTON MARSHALL. 

